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DICTIONARY/ Alive/ Zombieing
● Alive n. 3 yrs & counting Dating, work & life

Zombieing

A ghost who comes back — the person who disappeared for months and then texts 'hey stranger' as if nothing happened. Named in 2023 and, the record notes, describing behaviour as old as messaging.

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Dating press and TikTok, 2023
Life & death · 2022–2028
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
PEAK 2023
BORN · 2023
NOW · 2026

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Definition @sephora_tween · Lurker 12 Apr 2026

The record files zombieing as the sequel to ghosting and notes that the dating vocabulary now has a whole afterlife: ghost, zombie, and 'haunting', which is orbiting with a scarier name.

Memory @ranked_rage · Poster 17 Dec 2023

For whoever reads this in ten years: Zombieing arrived in 2023 and for about a month it was the only correct response to anything. Then it became a response to itself.

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